Young at Heart
Series· 1980–1982· 30m

Young at Heart

The lives of married couple Albert and Ethel Collyer, after Albert, a pottery worker for 50 years, is forced into retirement aged 65.

Currently airing

Last airedFinale
S3 · E6On The Move

Cast

Seasons

Season 31982
6 episodes
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    E1What Price Honour?
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    Albert and Ethel visit their daughter in Manchester and are shocked to find that she is living with her boyfriend.

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    E2All's Well That Ends Well
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    When a small insurance policy pays out some cash, Albert and Ethel decide to have the holiday of a lifetime...

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    E3Wish You Were Here
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    E4All Good Things Come To An End
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    E5Food, Glorious Food
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    Ethel and Albert are back from holiday, and she decides they both need to go on a diet. She craftily bets Albert a week's pension that he'll give in first...

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    E6On The MoveFinale
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    Albert and Ethel learn that their street is due to be demolished to make way for a bypass...

Season 21981
7 episodes
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    E1Everything In The Garden's Lovely
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    Albert is offered a job as a gardener. Though he claims to have green fingers, in fact he knows almost nothing about gardening....

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    E2Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
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    Albert and Ethel are shocked when their son Billy (Kevin Lloyd) tells them that he and his family are emigrating to Australia. Albert takes it very badly indeed...

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    E3I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
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    Albert and Ethel take a day trip to out-of-season Blackpool.

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    E4All Through The Night
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    Albert, outside in the dark wearing only pyjamas to investigate the crash of a milk bottle, finds himself locked out of the house...

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    E5Men Were Deceivers Ever
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    Albert meets old flame Lily Higgins and proves that there's no fool like an old fool! Ethel gets suspicious, and eventually finds him with his trousers down...

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    E6Love Is
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    Albert seizes the opportunity to give Norman some very unhelpful advice about women...

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    E7Easy Come, Easy GoFinale
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Season 11980
6 episodes
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    E1Pastures Green And New
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    E2There's No Place Like Home
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    E3Ashes To Ashes
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    Albert is advised to find a friend of his own age, and decides to visit an old pal. Unfortunately his old friend has just died, and Albert ends up at the funeral, and he resolves to make arrangements for his own passing...

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    E4Come Back, All is Forgiven
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    Albert is still trying to find something useful to do with his new-found days of leisure, but tries to resist Ethel's persuasion that he joins the local over-60s club...

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    E5Oh What A Tangled Web
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    Albert feigns illness to get out of helping with the spring cleaning. A medical student is called upon to teach him a lesson he won't forget...

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    E6And They Said It Wouldn't LastFinale
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    Albert and Ethel are celebrating their 45th anniversary, and he intends to buy her a diamond ring. Unfortunately, times have changed, and Albert's £50 budget won't go very far...

Details

Seasons
3 · 19 episodes
Runtime
30m per episode
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
April 14, 1980
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